Customer Photo Contest Winners
At the start of last 2023, we asked our customers to send in their best pictures of their GridFree life. We had loads of awesome responses and it was really hard...
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'Our Tiny Project' in Raglan
"We've been living off grid for 9 months now, thanks in part to our Lifestyle Kit (which even charges our electric car!) Now we are running workshops to help others...
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Wade's Lifestyle Kit in Northland
"I have just completed my build and I am totally off grid. I would like to say a big thanks to the guys at the GridFree store I purchased their...
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Colin's Freedom Kit in Opotiki
"I had my Freedom Kit installed 10 Oct and it is running beautifully with no issues at all. We've had a couple of times where there were 2-3 days in a row...
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Paul's Tiny House
The freedom of living off-grid and being self sufficient has always appealed to me. Moving back to NZ we wanted to live in Waitakere but didn’t want to rent so putting a tiny...
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Te Arahi's Home in Rodney
"Our solar systems have never missed a beat since I installed them over a year and half ago, thanks to Zed and Ethan for your help. Also my cousin Gary and...
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Bridget's Log Cabin in Twizel
"Absolutely loving my solar kit. I’ve been in my house since Easter 2021 and no hiccups with it. Where I live we get a lot of fog over the winter so...
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Peter's Bach Kit in Marlborough
Our property is in the Pelorus Sounds boat access only, with no mains power. Prior to installation of the Bach Kit, I used a small Hydro unit to provide my...
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Stacey's Campervan
Stacey's running our Weekend Warrior Kit in his converted ambulance camper. "I installed the kit myself. It was my first effort with all things solar, but the kit was quite...
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Tom and Maudi's Freedom Kit in Ruatoria
Check out our latest customer install! Tom and Maudi are running the GridFree Freedom Kit on their house in Ruatoria!
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Off Grid Solar with Two Weekend Warriors
Looking to power your caravan or weekend get-away? The Weekend Warrior Kit gives you off grid solar power anywhere, anytime, so you’re free to go wherever the road takes you with our DIY...
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DIY Dreams: The Reboot Life House Bus, NZ, powered by The Bach Kit
Karma and Scott are running the Bach Kit in their 1984 Isuzu bus, which they have converted themselves over the last year!
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Andrew's Bach Kit
Overall we are very happy with our system, its perfect for what we need. Uses about 40% of the stored battery capacity overnight and we don’t minimize power usage and...
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Reuben's Freedom Kit in Hokianga
It has been about 9 to 10 months since I installed my Freedom Kit solar power system, and it has been a great experience for me as a first time user...
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Martin's Freedom Kit in Dunedin
Our kit is installed on and in our three bay shed high on Mt Cargill, overlooking Dunedin city. We installed the racks and panels ourselves, and had a sparky connect...
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Marcia's Family Home in Raglan - Upgrading the Bach Kit
We purchased a Bach Kit for our whare back before Christmas 2019. It was great over the summer months and kept up with what we needed it to do. When...
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Rebecca and David's Homestead in Owhango - Freedom Kit
Rebecca and David are running the Freedom Kit with the Hybrid Inverter at their family homestead 'Fodder Farm' in Owhango.
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Gene's Home in Gisborne - Freedom Kit
Gene is running the Freedom Kit at his family home in Gisborne. After a 6 year journey, construction on the house was finished earlier this year, and he, his wife...
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Tom's Tiny House
We checked in on Tom earlier this year and had a quick chat about how he's finding off-grid life so far! He's running the Bach Kit on his tiny house...
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Jane's Freedom Kit in Whangerei
We are really pleased with the setup so far. We got the lead carbon batteries and so far have not discharged below 70% with them generally 90 - 100% charged....
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An Update from Orca Bus - One Year On
When we first talked to Rachel and Marius, they were just one month into living in their newly renovated housebus, Orca. It's now been over a year of adventures, and we're lucky...
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Elias and Maria in Auckland
Check out this fully off-grid relocated house, located south west of Auckland CBD.Massive water storage and 10kw of solar/battery capacity using our Freedom Kit. The super-resilient owners Elias and María have also...
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Nathan in Karamea
I have had a great experience purchasing our solar system from GridFree. Their website is full of useful information for working out what we want, they have been very helpful...
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Marie's Tiny Home - Interview
Originally from France, Marie has been in New Zealand for several years, and we first met her in June of 2019, when she purchased a Tiny House Kit with a...
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